Eighteen raters (5 men, 13 women; 28% African American, 66% European American, 6% Hispanic American) completed an average of 93 hours of training. As needed, raters completed additional training to attain acceptable inter-rater reliability and to prevent rater drift. Ratings were made using 5-point Likert scales (e.g., “parent was permissive or laissez faire” was rated: Not at All, A Little, Sometimes, Often, Very Often). This paper focuses on ratings of parenting behaviors and parent-teen problem solving (see Table 2). Average videotape rating time was 5.01 hours. Twenty percent of the videotapes were double-rated to check inter-rater reliability. Intraclass correlations indicated inter-rater agreement was high (ICC M = 88, range .68 to .97) (Lindahl, 2001; McGraw & Wong, 1996).
